The New Caledonian challenge
Fire Tracking aims to assist firefighters, forest owners and infrastructure managers by detecting and automatically locating the fires starting only a few seconds after they start. To achieve this, FireTracking relies on a embedded artificial intelligence, connected to a network of high-precision cameras for advanced detection.
New Caledonia represents a territory where Fire problem is particularly acute and complex. Annually, between 20,000 and 50,000 hectares go up in smoke, which corresponds to the area that burns throughout French France. An alarming figure, especially since this territory is home to more than 300 endemic plant species, compared to only forty in Europe.
It is in this context that FireTracking collaborated with the South Province, a community in New Caledonia, in order to identify effective solutions for automatic AI detection fires starting. This study revealed that the'IA could provide a response that was both efficient and economical, thus paving the way for the emergence of a French player on a booming market.
The birth of a technological
FireTracking was officially launched in 2023, at the end of This first collaboration. A research and development phase of more than two years was then initiated, mobilizing a team ofExperts in artificial intelligence, including three doctors from the best French and international schools.
This expertise and experiments in the town of Mont-Dore as a laboratory have made it possible to reach an unprecedented level of performance compared to traditional systems. Conventional cameras generate an average of 100 alarms per day per camera, with a false alarm rate of 95%. In contrast, our solution only displays three to five alarms per day per camera, with less than 10% false alarms. A major difference, which changes the operational life of field teams.
“With FireTracking, we are alerted in real time with a precise location of the start of fire and very few false alarms. Thanks to optical zoom, we can remove doubts and conduct field analysis on a digital medium, which allows us to engage resources quickly and safely.” Eddy Aïta - Head of Corps CIS de la ville du Mont-Dore
A flight across the Pacific
The success of the New Caledonian experiment played a decisive role in accelerating the deployment of FireTracking. The results obtained on this island territory served as a full-scale validation and contributed to positioning the solution as a tech reliable on the market ofinnovation at the service of fire prevention.
It is in particular this experience that led FireTracking to be selected on the public market aimed at equipping the entire department of Indre-et-Loire, a strategic project that marks a new stage in the adoption of technologies of AI detection in France. The FireTracking solution was also one of the finalists of the”OVHcloud Impact Challenge 2035“program that rewards startups with a high environmental and societal impact, during the last edition of VivaTech'. This recognition confirms a clear trajectory: innovations tested in the field, useful and operational, become essential levers for strengthening the protection of populations and the adaptation of territories in the face of natural risks.
